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Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Universities are Confusing!

Recently my sixth form attended a UCAS event to find out all about what universities and other opportunities are out there for us after we finish compulsory education. For me personally, it was basically an exercise of picking up prospectuses so you don't have to sign up for emails from the universities. If you didn't know already, I want to study Geography at university in two academic years time, preferably to do with climate change and with a year abroad so that I can keep my Spanish up. The trouble is, most universities do Geography, and all the degrees are very similar.

Sunday, 2 March 2014

A Travel Guide to Segovia, Spain

Last week, I went to Segovia, a smallish city about an hour north-west of Madrid, and these are some of my favourite places to go there (in no particular order).

1. El Acueducto (The aqueduct, for those of you who don't speak Spanish). Segovia's most famous landmark is probably the Roman aqueduct that spans the Plaza de ArtillerĂ­a. It was built in the 1st century AD and originally stretched all the way from the mountains of the Sistema Central. It's magnificent and the fact that the stones are held together by nothing but gravity and their own pressure makes this even more impressive.